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Welcome to 1100 Pennsylvania, a newsletter devoted to President Donald Trump’s Trump Hotel International Washington, D.C. (and his other companies). President Trump, of course, still owns his businesses and can profit from them.

If you like what you see, tell someone. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.

The Independent Petroleum Association of America’s Congressional Call-Up will take place March 4, 2019 at the president’s hotel, according to the Illinois Oil & Gas Association.

The IPPA is a trade group for the fossil fuel industry. “The Call-Up is one of the best ways for IPAA members to meet and discuss pending issues with members of the House and Senate,” according to IPAA’s description of last year’s event—which also was held at the Trump Hotel D.C. In 2018, “members participated in 150 meetings with House and Senate Members and helped influence change on Capitol Hill” per the group’s marketing material. And Rep. Steve Scalise (R–LA) was a featured speaker.

An email to the IPPA’s manager of public affairs and communications, Jennifer Pett, asking why the group chose to return to the Trump Hotel D.C. in 2019 and if it had anything to do with the U.S. president owning the property was met with an out-of-office auto reply.

No shutdown specials offered

Unlike D.C.’s Capitol Lounge, which is offering $5 drink specials, or José Andrés, who’s giving away free sandwiches to government workers, a staffer at the restaurants and bars in the U.S. president’s hotel confirmed they are not offering any deals to furloughed U.S. government workers.

DC AG: Trump’s weak stance on Saudi Arabia bolsters emoluments case

“People shouldn’t have to worry that we’re going soft on Jamal Khashoggi’s murderers because the president has a financial interest and financial relationship with them,” [Washington, D.C. attorney general Karl] Racine said in an interview during a meeting of the Democratic Attorneys General Association in Washington this month.

Legal cases, current status (latest change, Dec. 24, 2018)

Official capacity—On Dec. 20, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it would hear the president’s appeal of district court rulings that allowed the case to proceed to discovery. Oral augments on the appeal will take place March 19–21. In the meantime, the court halted discovery in the case. Discovery had started Dec. 3 and was scheduled to run through Aug. 2, 2019, with the AGs already having issued 38 subpoenas, including to the Trump Organization; the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, and Treasury and the GSA; and the state of Maine.

UPDATED Individual capacity—On Dec. 14, Trump’s personal attorneys appealed the denial of their motion to dismiss the case, also to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Dec. 19, the AGs replied to Trump’s motion for a stay pending that appeal by voluntarily dismissing the claims against Trump in his “individual capacity to allow the claims against President Trump in his official capacity to move forward expeditiously.” (The AGs only brought suit against Trump in his individual capacity after the judge suggested they do so.) Trump’s personal attorneys, on Dec. 21, opposed the motion to dismiss at the district level, saying the appeals court now has jurisdiction and accusing the AGs of “gamesmanship.”

“‘The whole idea of once things are going wrong, he takes no ownership—that’s just Trump,’ [former president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino Jack] O’Donnell added. ‘He does not own anything that goes wrong. The problem is, he’ll blame anybody. Obviously, it’s the Democrats in this situation.’” By David Nakamura for The Washington Post.

“The Trumps are hardly the first wealthy family to seek cheap public relations points through a foundation, or to skirt the niceties of corporate governance and tax law along the way. What made the Trump Foundation unusual was how little else it did, and how little anyone involved in it appeared to care about anything, other than Trump’s self-aggrandizement.” By Harold Pollack for The Washington Post.

One thing that has nothing to do with Trump’s businesses (I think, tough to tell sometimes!)

The latest This Week in Podcasts newsletter run downs 26 essential podcast episodes of 2018—lots of favorites there (Trump Inc. on Michael Cohen, This American Life's Five Women, and Reply All's on QAnon), as well as a bunch of episodes I haven’t heard and just saved.

Thanks for reading. If you like what you saw, tell someone. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.